Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1887-04-10

pairing notes, devising q better financial
system, and making additional rules.
The employees of the Pennsylvania Salt
Manufacturing Company at NatrOna, Pa,
500 in number, have asker for an advance
in wages of 10 per cent for men getting
81 so per day and 10 per cent for those
earning more.
The New Jersey League of Glass blowers
has gained the a%scendency In Wyman's
glass factory, aud the set of blowers be-
longing TO the Coffey faction, or knights
Of Labor, have been dismissed. -Phaadel
phid Record.
The International Cigarmakers' Union
has. through the West6eld Mass Union,
petitioned the Superior Court for IN in
Junction restraining the Atlantic Cigar
Company from using q label whcih they
allege is an imitation of and an infringe
ment upon the Cigarmakers' Union label.
Russell & Co, engine and agricultural
works, of MassilOn, Ohio, introduced into
their foundry some fourteen months ago
two molding machines, at considerable
expense. After running them nine months
they compelled to stop the use OF them on
account OF the accumulation of scrap, and
consequent inability to fill orders In fact,
the machines, were q perfect success as
scrap-makers, bat not Of much account as
mOlding machines.
The Bound Brook, n. j., wooden mills
have shut down owing TO an extensive
strike among the operatives. A committee
of three asked Henry l.. Einstein, the
owner of the mills, for an increase OF wa
ges and to make less deductions from wa
ges because of imperfect work. The com-
mittee were discharged as being knights
of Labor. 4 strike was then ordered by
the Knights of Labor, and 100 persons
went out, all of whom are Knights but
twenty.
The pattern makers of Pittsburg have
asked an advance of 10 per cent and a half
holiday on Saturdays. Their wages are
not as good a. paid elsewhere, they claim.
They all went out on Monday. Thomas
Mcdonnell, president of the association,
states that strikes are in progress Ill st.
Louis, Cincinnati and Chicago, and that q
portion of the employers there have gront-
ed tina half holiday.
The Brotherhood of Painters of Pitts
burg has organized Local lodge, No. 10, of
the order in that city. The object is to
help the wage question, and it relies solely
upon p~aintetS for its support and assist
ance. The meetings are held in Old City
Hall and about iOrty-tive members have
been enrolled up to date. The order Is
quite independent of the Knights Of Labor,
but admits painters and decorators whether
members of assemblies OF not. VIM. +.
Kennedy is organizer for Eastern Ohio and
Western Pennsylvania.
The inquiries for American machinery
for export are of such number and charac-
ter rs to point to the probability of 4 great
increase in the demand for Our machine
shop products.
Ten or twelve cities are now working on
contracts for improved machines, among
which are Jersey City, Providence, Boston,
ChisagO, Pittsburg, and Rochester, \. y.
A tool company in the latter place has Just
shipped an engine TO Japan and one to
South America.
A Moscow, Russia firm has ordered a
l50-horSe-pOwer engine from Westinghouse,
at Pittsburg, and Yokohama, Japan, firm,
has ordered one Of 60.hOrse power, while
Il $50 horsepower engine is being made for
Australia.
Eastern capitalists are cooperating with
Southern and Southwestern merchants to
establish cotton factories, %iOundries and
mill capacity of one kind or another.
A 800, 900 cotton factory will he erected
this summer at Shreveport, La, and q
dozen of the larger Louisiana and Texas
| cities have the manufacturing fever. Bos-
ton capitalists are about purchasing II. 900
acres of land at Mammoth Springs, Ark,
to erect on it Il $25O,00O cotton mill. 4
5000, 600 cotton mill at West Point, Ga,
recently burned, is TO be Immediately re-
built; and an Augusta mill will put in
| 800 additional looms to use all Of its water
power.
A Fell River Frenchman has invented a
device which stops a loom automatically
when an imperlectiOn occurs.
Some remarkably heavy orders are being
placed now for material OF almost every
sort Tor construction purposes. Anew York
company has ordered 100 miles of 3 and
10 in;h pipe. The demand Tor piping is
so vast that Allegheny city authorities
have been obliged TO send To Louisville for
loo tons of water pipe. Even Philadel-
phia has been sending pipe to Pittsburg for
gas purposes.
4 plate mill is to be built at Pittsburg
263 feet long, So feet wide, With two wings
Is feet wide. The horizontal rolls will he
~ inches long and b inches in diameter,
and will roll 30 ton ingOts. 1t will he the
largest mill of its kind in the world.
Machinery rejected twenty years ago i'll
| America is in Use in Germany to-day, and
yet in many textile products " e are under
sold. The substitution of american ma
chinery will take place on a moderate scale,
and thus intensity competition.
Trade organizations ar springing up
among manufacturers, AMI comaratively
few trades remain unOrgalized. PrOduc.
ton is under better centrOl than ever, aud
capacity is being rapidly expanded.
Rails for 20, 900 miles of road will be
made and laid this year in the United
States.
A great many carpenters, %jOiners, brick
LAYERS and other tradesmem are Rushing
west, expecting to pick up work at once.
In some places, notably Chicago, they have
been disappointed.
East Indian iron and steel requirements
are scattering the dark clouds from the
English industrial horizon. One order for
18,O 900 tons OF steel ties was placed Il few
days ago.
Employers are here aud there discussing
in an informal way the merits and dement's
of dividing profits with workmen. In the
New England states the feeling is that the
construction of workmen's houses is the
better plan. Labor organizations them
selves ara giving the subject no special at
%tention.
Nine buildings are projected by labor
associations. Thirty-three corporation en-
terprises have been under taken since jan
uary l, and a good many more are pro-
iected.
The legislature CT Connecticut has Just
passed q law restricting factory labor to
ten hours per day, or sixty hours per week
for women and children.
The Maine LEGISLATURE Labor Committee